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The romance film that began as a bleak thriller
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Before it became a beloved fairytale about a rich man saving a beautiful escort, the script was an incredibly bleak cautionary tale. Only after realizing that audiences wildly prefer sanitized, uplifting delusions did the studio drastically soften the narrative, turning gritty street survival into a cheerful shopping montage.
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